EDVR Marc d Alsace Gewurztraminer machine translated reference / legal text
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Art 1st. -
Only are entitled to regulated name “Marc of Alsace” followed by the denomination “Gewurztraminer” the brandies answering the conditions hereafter enumerated and coming from marc of grapes of Gewurztraminer collected in the surface of production of the wines with appellation contrôlée “Alsace” and distilled on the territory of the departments of Haut-Rhin and the Low-Rhine.
Art 2. -
The brandies regulated by this decree will have to come exclusively from healthy marcs, picked off, resulting from a wine making in conformity with the provisions of ordinance N. 45.2675 of bearing November 2, 1945 statute of the wines of Alsace and likely to at least provide 4,5 liters of pure alcohol by 100 kg of declared raw material.
Art 3. -
The brandies regulated by this decree will have to be obtained in two times by means of the only stills with passes by again, simple or double wall, heated with naked fire or the steam, of a maximum capacity of 50 raw material hl in twenty-four hours. The method known as of diffusion is prohibited like any other process of distillation.
Art 4. -
The brandies regulated by this decree will have to present, at the temperature 15° C, the average alcoholic strength according to: - on the outlet side of the apparatuses: 68° Gay-Lussac to the maximum; - at the moment of the sale to the consumer: 45° Gay-Lussac at least. In all the cases, they must at least have a content not-alcohol of 400 grams per hectolitre of pure alcohol. They could not be put in circulation without a certificate of approval delivered by an interprofessional commission tasters appointed by the national institute of the labels of origin, on proposal of the regional professional organizations. Rules of procedure approved by the national institute of the labels of origin determine the conditions of delivery of the certificate of approval.
Art 5. -
In the establishments where, using the same apparatuses, the alcohols reserved for the State and brandies regulated by this decree would be manufactured, one month a minimum time will have to be run out between this two manufacture.
Art 6. -
The brandies for which, under the present decree, will be asserted regulated name “Marc of Alsace” followed by the denomination “Gewurztraminer” could not be declared for manufacture, be offered to the consumers, be dispatched, put on sale or be sold without, in manufacture, the advertisements, on the leaflets, labels, invoices, containers unspecified, name and the denomination considered being indicated, accompanied by the mention “Name regulated” in very apparent characters.
Art 7. -
The use of any indication or any sign likely to make believe in the purchaser that a brandy is entitled to name regulated above, whereas it does not answer all the conditions fixed by this decree, will be continued, in accordance with the general legislation on the frauds and the protection of the 2 and labels of origin (art 1st of the law of August 1, 1905; art 8 of the law of May 6, 1919; art 13 of the decree of modified August 19, 1921), without damage of the sanctions of a tax nature, if it is necessary, and will make lose with this brandy the benefit of the paragraph C of the law of January 13, 1941. Warning: Information pré senté be on this site are the subject of a clause of nonresponsabilité INAO_19660722_1302/11/2006 Downloadable document: EDVR_Marc_d_Alsace_Gewurztraminer.doc